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Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.
- Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, my dad showed me N.E.R.D., their first album, and I thought it was amazing. I thought Pharrell was just killing everything. That was my first introduction to rap.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.
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- Nov 07, 2020